Enoden Stations : EN14 – Wadazuka

The Enoden links Fujisawa & Kamakura via a coastal route that gives both those cities access to the little island of Enoshima – hence the name. It’s a charming, old-fashioned trainline, with some really interesting sights to be seen along the way.

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Local Sights

Not a whole heap – just the graves the station is named for, really.

You can easily walk on down to Yuigahama beach from here, and enjoy the sights it has to offer.

All About EN14 Wadazuka Station

You may recall that Japan’s first shogunate took Kamakura as its capital, and there’s a fair few sights along the Enoden connected to the boss of all of that, Minamoto no Yoritomo.

There have also been a fair few sights connected to Nitta Yoshisada, who invaded Kamakura in 1333.

The thing is, Yoritomo died in 1199… so we’re missing about a century or so, are we not?

After Yoritomo’s death, the standard worldwide tradition of various players vying for power went into effect, and would culminate with the success of the Hojo clan in 1213. They would then go on to be in charge up until Nitta Yoshisada appeared on their doorstep.

One of the other major clans who didn’t make the grade was the Wada clan.

Remember Musashizuka? Final resting place of Japan’s greatest swordsman?

If you do then you know that zuka means ‘tomb’, and Wadazuka is home to the final resting place of a substantial amount of Wada soldiers, fallen in the final battle against the Hojo.

Apparently, hundreds of skeletons were discovered when construction began on a large scale in the area a while ago.

Nowadays, it’s just a very chilled non-descript little grove, set back a little from the road down to the beach. There are worse ways to spend eternity, I would imagine.